glasshouse in the world. so for kew this was a hugely important project, both to bring these plants back to their home but also to restore this building back to its beauty and its absolute architectural brilliance. open to the public once again, this great building is fulfilling its original victorian purpose — providing a home for some of the world's most precious plants. victoria gill, bbc news, kew gardens. we are under the heathrow flight path so there's a bit of noise in the background but this is an arc of some of the most endangered species on the planet. i'm standing next to pink trumpet. on saturday, everyone will walk through the doors for the first time in five years to explore it for themselves. it looks lovely. thank you, victoria. time now for the weather. temperatures are set to rise into the weekend which is a bank holiday

weekend. for the time being we've seen some sunshine but also we've got a bit of rain around. this wet weather has been pushing its way in gci’oss weather has been pushing its way in across northern ireland. we are starting to see a fall across northern parts of. wales the cloud is increasing across western areas. however, across the midlands andes in england where going to hold onto some fine spells of sunshine. there is some fine cloud around but there's a risk of a few spots of rain skirting into the north—west of wales, perhaps the north west midlands, north west wales, parts of north—west england, although the weather system will be weakening all the while. temperatures today reaching a high of 18 degrees or so. overnight tonight any rain should tend to fizzle out and will have a cloudier kind of night, temperatures will be not as low as they've been over recent nights. temperatures down to between 7—9 for most, although with clear spells across eastern england here, temperatures could dip down and become chilly in rural parts. on friday, weather fronts to the north and west of the uk, brisk south—westerly winds bringing the cloud in and that cloud

will bring in bits and pieces of rain to the north—west of the country. elsewhere the cloud will tend to come and go, we'll see a bright sunny spells and it shouldn't feel too bad in the sunshine with lighter winds further south, temperatures 18 degrees in aberdeen, newcastle, and 19 in london. that's just the weather warming up because as we head into saturday, sunday and bank holiday monday, we'll get some sunny spells and it will get warmer and it's going to be dry foremost. i say dry foremost because there will be some weather fronts across the north—west of the country at times but a big area of high pressure is building close to the uk and increasingly through the weekend we will see winds dragged in from the continent and that should help boost the temperatures. the weekend starts off something like this. saturday, a lot of dry weather all those cloudy skies and a bit of rain across the north—west where it will be quite windy, temperatures starting to climb. we're looking at highs towards london and south—east reaching 23 degrees on saturday, further north, a scene in newcastle,

16 in edinburgh. temperatures will continue to rise for the second half of the weekend with increasing amounts of sunshine and those winds increasingly coming in from the continent, damages will be drifting higher. london and south—east england are likely to get to 23 degrees, 25 in birmingham and temperatures climbing further north. bank holiday weekend looks all right! a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. breast cancer charities report a leap in numbers of women seeking advice after faults in the screening programme in england. that's all from the bbc news at ne. it's goodbye from me. on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. have a good afternoon. good afternoon, it's 1:30pm. i'm ben mundy in the bbc sports centre. it was a nervy night for liverpool and their supporters. they lost 11—2 to roma on the night in italy, but go through to the champions league final 7—6 on aggregate.

they now face defending champions real madrid in kiev later this month. and now the scramble is on for tickets. both liverpool and madrid have been allocated just over 16,000 each for the match on 26 may. the remainder of the 63,000 capacity will be taken up by sponsors and hospitality. it's set to be a mouthwatering final then, and jurgen klopp says his team will put on a show. yeah, we will be ready then, but it is real madrid so we don't have to talk about anything, you can not be more experienced in that competition than real madrid. pretty much 80% of their team played all these finals four times in the last five years, they are still together. so they are experienced, we are not, if you talk about experience, but we will be really on fire. attention turns to the europa league this evening, as arsenal look to seal a place in the final. they're in spain to face atletico madrid.

arsene wenger‘s side drew the first leg of their semifinal at the emirates 1—1. if arsenal do progress, it'll give wenger the chance to win silverware in his final match in charge. i would like to walk out of arsenal one day and think, i have focused on arsenal. and when myjob is finished, we go from there. i want to finish with this love story well. as expected, justin langer has been appointed australia's new cricket coach. the former opening batsman takes overfrom darren lehmann in the wake of the ball—tampering scandal. langer says one of his firstjobs will be to earn the respect and trust of the cricketing world. one of the things that is really important is that we keep looking to earn respect. to me respect is worth more than all the gold in the world. earn respect on and off the cricket field. also another really important foundation over the last six years in western australian cricket is we look to encourage great cricketers but also great people.

if we can encourage great cricketers and great australians over the next four years starting from day one i think that is really important foundations for us. there'll be another big star leaving northampton saints this summer, after ben foden announced he's going after ten years at the club. saints have won one premiership title and two european challenge cups since the full—back joined from sale in 2008. he also won 3a england caps during that spell, but saturday's match against worcester will be his 250th and last. fodenjoins the likes of george north and stephen myler in deciding to leave. kirsten vild has won the opening stage of the tour de yorkshire. the favourite prior to the race — from beverley to doncaster — had too much powerfor everyone else, looking very comfortable as she crossed the line. it's her second tour de yorkshire win, with britain's alice barnes finishing third. the men's first stage starts very shortly in the four—day race, which ends in leeds. and the first of the world snooker championship semifinals is under way in sheffield. john higgins is back in action

after beating judd trump by just the one frame at the crucible last night. the four—time champion up against kyren wilson. the other semifinal — between barry hawkins and mark williams — starts this evening. let's take you to the crucible right now, where the first semifinal is underway. john higgins took the first frame. the second frame in action right 110w. the second frame in action right now. the best of 33 frames. you can watch them on bbc two and the bbc sport website. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. the mother of the murdered toddler james bulger says attempts to remove anonymity from one of his killers is a "waste of time". the two—year—old's father ralph has begun a legal attempt to reveal the new identity ofjon venables. james' mother, denise fergus, told bbc radio five live that she didn't want any revenge attacks on her son's killers. eight years in a young offenders is no sentence at all.

especially them, they have the best of everything. they had better lives in my opinion when they killed james. they got given everything. they got given bedrooms, wallpaper, carpets. they got to do basically what they wanted. on their release they probably realised out in the real world now they will be looking over their shoulder. i have always said i don't want them dead because i don't want blood on my hands. i don't agree with killing someone. ijust think, all i ever wanted was justice forjames and getting justice would have been those two from the young offenders to go to proper prison and get proper time in there and maybe venables would have been a better person, i am not sure, i don't think a leopard can change their spots,

at least in prison they would have realised what they did was wrong and not get away with it but they did basically get away with his murder. you talk about not wanting to have blood on your hands and the court case happening now to remove jon venables' anonymity, that has nothing to do with you? no, and i know my name was thrown all over it yesterday, but it is what ralph wants to do and if he believes he can get that then good luck to him. hats off to him. but in my personal opinion i think to do what he is asking it will undo everything that the government have done. it'll be a total waste of time. they have spent millions on them to protect them so all that good will be undone and not only that, people will be looking out for them now. has anybody ever said to you, offered to you, said they would take action on your behalf, physical action, be

violent against them? they have never come to me to say that but, i am not going to protect them, definitely not going to protect them. i will not say to people leave them alone because i don't know everyone on this planet and i don't know what those two are up to other than what venables has just been charged with again. ijust think it is going to be a total waste money to release the identities. i think it will open a can of worms. a lot of people will come forward for the same thing. does it make the healing more difficult when they keep reappearing like this? you can't block them out because something happens and they are back in the news again and it is hard to avoid. i expected it. i said years ago because they were never punished, they would go on to commit more crimes and that is what has happened.

i said that. venables is doing just that. a lot of people are saying you don't hear of thompson, that is because everything they do wrong is getting swept under the carpet. if it is serious that is the only time they get to know it. the newspaper picks up on it, then they will get to know but if it is kept quiet they will keep it quiet. that must frustrate you. it does because we don't know what the two of them are up to. would you want to know? would it help? yes, because at the end of the day i don't want anyone else to die the same wayjames died, by their hands. we know where venables is now, we don't know where thompson is, you don't know what he has done over the years. you don't know if he has broken the law again. unless it is something really serious like venables we will not know. did change the way you were as a mum? it definitely did. i was very quiet. since it happened to james i have

become a stronger person. i have learnt how to fight james' corner. i have done more fighting in life than living it, but that is the way i intended it to be and that is what i want to do, to fight forjames. obviously i will do it for him. that was james bulger‘s mother, denise fergus, speaking to anna fosterfrom bbc five live. elections are set to take place in iraq next week. the current prime minister haider al abadi is facing a number of problems while trying to win another term. while the nation has been battling the so—called islamic state group — the country's oil capital basra — has become a breeding ground for drugs and criminals. yalda hakim sent this report. it's night—time in basra, the time of day when a new war —

a fight against criminal drugs and gangs — takes over the streets. this is the elite force that goes out every night on raids to try and crack down on organised crime in this city. in the past two years, police here say they've made more than 4000 drug—related arrests. but with youth unemployment at almost 50%, the swat team has someone new to hunt each night. basra was spared from occupation by the so—called islamic state group, but the richest city in iraq has other problems. after years of war, occupation and insurgency, the locals here had hoped their city would become the next dubai, but there are no skyscrapers here, just high unemployment, crime and corruption. oil money from basra seems to never benefit basra, the people here bitterly complain. and their young people

are faced with hard choices. many end up here, in al qibla prison. what are the issues you face here? under the saddam regime, drug dealers and thieves were often put to death. now, they linger in cells like this. i mean, the conditions are really bad. there are two sides of basra. the city and the desert, run by the tribes. the tribal leaders have long—standing grievances against the government in baghdad. they say their land was taken for the oil companies, while their children got nothing. and prime minister abadi, they say, no can longer afford to ignore them. at the cafe back in the city,

young men play dominoes and chat. they have no jobs to get up for in the morning. they tell me people in power are letting drugs ruin their city. in the upcoming elections, the baghdad government must finally

listen to the people in basra, locals warn, or risk them turning further towards iran for their future. yalda hakim, bbc news, basra. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour, but first the headlines on bbc news. thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they've been affected by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren't invited for breast screening. there are fresh questions for president trump about what he know over a $130,000 payment to the porn star stormy daniels. nearly 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. in the business news... tesla has posted a record quarterly

loss of almost £523 million for the three months to march — more than double the same period last year. the carmarker says it will be profitable in the second half of 2018 — but only if it can make 5000 model 3 cars every week. reaching that goal is in doubt as the electric car maker produced less than half that number in the last week of april. cambridge analytica, the firm at the centre of the facebook data—sharing scandal, is shutting down. the firm was accused of improperly obtaining personal information of up to 87 million facebook users on behalf of political clients. talktalk has come last for the second year running in a broadband service report released by regulator ofcom. the compa ny‘s customers were the least likely to recommend their provider to friends. it scored poorly for reliability and complaints handling. talktalk say they are rolling out major service improvements. we start with electric carmaker tesla. its vehicles may not burn any fuel, but the company is certainly burning through cash at an alarming rate — almost £5,000 a minute according to bloomberg.

that's starting to try the patience of once—loyal investors. on wednesday elon musk — its chief executive — promised that the firm will finally be profitable in the second half of this year despite another quarter of huge losses. tesla lost about £523 million between january and march this year. that was its worst ever quarterly loss — and well over twice as much as this time last year. the company has been pouring money into the model 3 — its first truly mass market car. that is paying off — total car production is up 40% this year. but tesla still has hundreds of thousands of customers waiting. earlier we spoke to anna—marie baisden, head of autos, bmi research. i think this was always going to be a challenge for them going from being a niche manufacturer to being a volume manufacturer and they set some pretty lofty targets for themselves and they keep falling short.

they need to be at 5000 a week. they are still nowhere near that. they say they will do it byjune but at the moment it is hard to see how they can reach that figure. the share price stayed pretty steady after the results themselves but the call but the analysts whether they refused to answer some key questions made do i start the ball. customers, investors and analysts, everyone wants answers to the big questions as to how they will start to turn things around. more "disappointing" data for the uk economy — already this week we have had construction and and manufacturing pmi figures, this morning it was the turn of the services sector. pmi stands for the purchasing managers' index. any figures above 50 shows that the sector is growing — and the figure for april was 52.8 in april, but it wasn't as strong as expected. joining us now is yael selfin — chief economist at kpmg uk. let's start with pmi. figures above

50 means growth but how are these figures collated and cultivated? pmi indexis figures collated and cultivated? pmi index is a broad index where each month it as chris questions like as bad but increased, decreased or stayed unchanged through this month and weighted according to the size of the companies to arrive at the final index. services figures came in. it was above 50,50 2.8, but that does strong as expected, what with the issues there? we have seen for some time that the higher inflation and relatively weak growth momentum in the uk has caused a squeeze on household and consumers and therefore the services facing consumers are the ones that have been suffering. some of it was related to the bad weather last autumn, buti related to the bad weather last autumn, but i can see now it is more than that. earlier this week with

the construction figures they were returning to growth manufacturing, but again like services it was lower than expected. what impact do all of these figures have on things like whether or not the bank of england will raise interest rates. we had a relatively weak quarter one and now with the latest figures at the moment we are having a relatively wea k start moment we are having a relatively weak start to the second quarter of the year which means the bank of england may wish to pause ahead of raising rates again. thank you. some breaking news about virgin media. they are the uk's third—largest internet provider. we have heard that some jobs may be under threat. they have said they are to shove their swansea coll centre. more than 700 people employed there. we have been told the number of uk bases will shift from eight down to four.

centralising operations in manchester. 772 jobs, 220 subcontractors. we have been hearing that some of those jobs might be transferred elsewhere there will be redundancies. we will keep following that story and bring you more as we get it. let's see what the markets have been up to. the ftse is down slightly. ground cover have had strong results from mining and energy companies. that has boosted their share price and the pound and dollar down to $136. a few weeks ago we were at $1 1m. the pound weakening. the chances of the instanced in —— interest—rate rise dwindling from the back of those wea ker dwindling from the back of those weaker economic figures from the uk. the pound weakening against sterling. back with more throughout the afternoon. many professional musicians are thinking about changing career because they don't earn enough to live on — according to a study by the musicians union.

the report says nearly half of its members are considering giving up. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. a position with a leading uk orchestra would be a dream come true for gemma freestone, but she knows there's likely to be a cost. in the musicians union survey, almost half said orchestral work isn't enough to live on — luckily, gemma is keen to embrace additional work, like teaching, but for many, taking on extra work is a financial necessity. we don't do what we do the money, of course we don't, we love what we do but we have to earn a living and if people have families and children — obviously not me yet — but looking towards the future, if you want to have a family and live comfortably, you need to be able to earn a decent amount of money. percussion player nigel charman has

played in all the royal opera house's major productions in recent years. he says he feels lucky but that colleagues elsewhere are struggling because of the way he's seen orchestras and music changing over the last a0 years. the cost of instruments, the cost of insurance of instruments has gone up. the training is now costing a fortune, in time and in money, and it's not being supported by the money that we can earn. would you advise your children to go into the same profession? i have two children and i have done my best to make them grow up loving music and loving drama and loving sports and to go into the real world and go nowhere near the music business. the musicians union say archestras are an important part of our culture and aren'tjust for regular concert—goers. even if you're not a classical music fan, you probably interact with orchestras more than you realise, so watching your favourite tv programme, film, playing your favourite video game,

orchestral musicians are on those soundtracks. also, our members do a lot of work in dementia homes, hospitals, and they also plug a gap in music education. they've started a campaign to try and increase awareness of the way orchestras affect everyday life, from visiting homes for the elderly to providing music on the soundtracks for hollywood's biggest movies in the hope that better recognition might lead to a musician's work being better rewarded, something that might ensure that talented young players like gemma won't be put off from playing in the many orchestras that touch people's lives in so many ways. lizo mzimba, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. the go over and join chris fox. things are said to warm up as we get worse weekend. the bank holiday monday things looking good as well. before

that today we have already seen a bit of sunshine across england in particular. this was one of the scenes from earlier in the day from the rotherham area showing sunny skies. not sunny everywhere. rain across northern ireland beginning to make its way across northern wales. some spots fully north—west of england and midlands. the eastern counties begun to sunshine and they will keep sunshine. small amounts of cloud. that will tend to melt away towards the evening. but the sunshine across eastern areas. cloud further west. temperatures from ten in edinburgh to 18 in london. that won't feel bad given the light winds and bright skies. tonight we will see cloudy weather pushing into the north and west. 12 towers for western scotland. largely dry night. thanks to the the cloud it will be milder. temperatures down between

seven and nine. a little cooler for east england. clearer skies. seven and nine. a little cooler for east england. clearerskies. for friday we have these weather the funds towards the north and west. risks so festively wind. pushing cloud and rain in the north—west of scotland. a lot of dry weather otherwise. some patches of cloud coming and going through the day with some sunny spells in between. temperatures with highs of 18 in aberdeen, 19 in london and that is the start of the warming trend. for the start of the warming trend. for the bank holiday weekend some decent weather. things will be warming up particularly across parts of england and wales. that is because we have the area of high pressure dominating the area of high pressure dominating the weather picture throughout the bank holiday weekend. increasingly we should start to get winds coming in from the near continent moving across germany, northern france, belgium. some pollution but also some sunshine and high temperatures.

saturday quite cloudy across the north—west. showers and went deeper north—west. showers and went deeper north—west scotland. away from that we should have dry weather. temperatures beginning to climb. highs of 23 towards the south—east. rainfor highs of 23 towards the south—east. rain for sunday across north—west scotland. clearing through the afternoon. winds coming from france. temperatures climbing higher. highs of 25 in both london and birmingham. much warmer. that is your weather. hello, you're watching afternoon live. today at 2: 5,000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday, after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. since we opened this morning, we

have had a0 calls on the first 15 minutes and it does not seem to be slowing down. people are calling about are they affected because people are not quite clear whether they are affected or not. a stormy issue. fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. nearly 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. investigations will continue into cambridge analytica, despte its announced closure after being hit by the facebook data scandal. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with ben. liverpool reach the champions league final.